File beats should work on windows server 2008R2?

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i am trying to start the file beat service it is throwing error. please help me.

Error is the service could not respond in timely fashion

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How are you installing it as a service? IIRC Filebeat itself isn't service-capable so you'd have to be using some kind of wrapper executable.

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By using powershell script

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  • Which version are you using?
  • What is the command you are running to start it?
  • What is your configuration?
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1.version 1.0.0
2. net start filebeat
3. $workdir = C:\filebeat-1.0.0-beta4-windows

create new service

New-Service -name filebeat -displayName filebeat
-binaryPathName "$workdir\filebeat.exe -c $workdir\filebeat.yml"

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Does it work if you start Filebeat outside in a command prompt, i.e. not as a service?

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yes i tried it is throwing the error message :
the service is not responded to the control function

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No, that's not what I asked. I asked what happens if you don't run it as a service, i.e. does

C:\filebeat-1.0.0-beta4-windows\filebeat -c C:\filebeat-1.0.0-beta4-windows\filebeat.yml

work?

Anyway, Filebeat itself doesn't function as a Windows service. I believe PowerShell's New-Service cmdlet just installs the necessary registry entries and requires the executable to respond to Windows' service callback, which Filebeat doesn't do. Look into NSSM or similar.

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thanx service was started